King LearDover Publications, 1994 M06 16 - 144 pages First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth. |
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... wit in a year ; For wise men are grown foppish , And know not how their wits to wear , Their manners are so apish . 13. motley ] the ordinary parti - coloured dress of the domestic fool . 14. if I had a monopoly out ] in folly . 15 ...
... wit shall ne'er go slip - shod.2 Ha , ha , ha ! Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly ; for though she's as like this as a crab ' s like an apple , yet I can tell what I can tell . FOOL . LEAR . Why , what canst thou tell ...
... wits begin to turn . Come on , my boy : how dost , my boy ? art cold ? I am cold myself . Where is this straw , my ... wit , — With hey , ho , the wind and the rain , - Must make content with his fortunes fit , For the rain it raineth ...